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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Browsing All Posts filed under »Up North in Michigan«
Report from the back roads
We're tamer than we look.
Spring Karma
April 20, 2011
There I was, working away on Civil War veterans, thinking a little bit of sleet was all we’d get. That’s the trouble with having the windows covered with cellular shades and giant quilts in the winter. You are apt to fail to notice what Mama Nature is up to right outside the Writing Studio and […]
The doctor makes barn calls
April 13, 2011
Yesterday was spring check-up day at Bay View Farm. Now there are not a lot of animals up there on the ridge, but what they lack in sheer numbers they make up for in personality. This is Monty the Morgan.
Song of the North
April 12, 2011
Katherine writes: "Loon in the misty pink morn." That's what I'd call this if I were waxing poetical and all that.
We had Spring this afternoon
April 9, 2011
It's northern Michigan. We delight in whatever spring we get.
Eat those bad boys
April 7, 2011
I've been arguing that the best way to fight invasive species is to eat them. I mean that we--people--should eat them. I'm opposed to bringing in exotic things that will eat the exotic pests because once they've done the job, well, what will they eat next?
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
April 23, 2011
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